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DirtyRobot posted:It wasn't fan made. We're piling on the Ultramarines movie because it looks like it's going to get outperformed by a movie that actually is fan made. Goal posts priced to move! The variation in 'quality' in the Horus Heresy books is so varied this hardly makes for an objective metric. By this argument, it was also gold. Whatever. I was able to watch it once and think 'Eh. Not terrible.' lite_sleepr fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Apr 6, 2014 |
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Joe Videogames posted:Becaue I like some HH series books too? It kind of was a piece of abject garbage, though. Don't get me wrong, I suppose I'm like you in that I didn't hate it, in fact I enjoyed it enough to watch it a couple of times over but I'm not going to stand in the face of overwhelming opinion and say that it's good for something it's not because there was barely enough Space Marines shooting Chaos in the face to satiate my apatite for it. So we have bad taste in movies, good thing we're all in this is a thread about our bad taste in literature. With that said, I'm finally getting around to reading Prospero Burns while simultaneously attempting to listen to the audio book of Fulgrim and drooling over my new hard cover of Visions of Heresy. When I close my eyes all I can see is war.
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Joe Videogames posted:Becaue I like some HH series books too? It's not fan made for like the 3rd time. It is a big production bankrolled by Games Workshop done by a pretty major production company featuring big name actors to do voices, and it's objectively worse than the intro movie from a game made in 2004.
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Joe Videogames posted:Because it's all we have. Why don't you go make one better so we can forget about Ultramarine. This is quite silly. The scenes of primarch badassery in the books have a reason to exist beyond fanboy wank; they show that the 40k universe is predicated on an era where demigods were real and their powers and ambitions (and fuckups) were titanic. Did you really read Betrayer and come off with the message that "Word Bearers/World Eaters are the best and are never wrong and always win and look good doing it?" I didn't like the Ultramarines movie. My friend who ordered the special edition and is and had 5k points of painted Ultramarines detested it. It felt formulaic in the worst sense, and unforgivable for something in the scale of 40k, small and lacking in stakes. Regarding the "treating bolter porn like it was Shakespeare", this is a non-issue. Cribbing from Rogert Ebert here, when and action film comes out, you don't compare it to Citizen Kane or Grapes of Wrath. You compare it to Robocop. Just because some genres have lower aims doesn't mean they cannot be well-executed and bring something to the table.
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Joe Videogames posted:Becaue I like some HH series books too? Joe listen man: calm down! Us not liking the Ultramarine movie and calling it garbage doesn't mean we're calling YOU garbage. Granted some people come off kind of strongly in this regard, but just let it go man its not worth your time.
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bunnyofdoom posted:So, um, any word on Interceptor City? Somewhere after Abnett is done writing Horus Heresy books I reckon.  Which is pretty much my estimate for his next Ghost book as well.
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Joe Videogames did you work on the Ultramarine movie? If you don't like Betrayer and think the super-human feats of the primarchs are stupid in the context of the heresy and 40k as a whole then maybe you just have terrible taste and should not get mad when people call you out on it.
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Cooked Auto posted:Somewhere after Abnett is done writing Horus Heresy books I reckon. Abnett has: - Gaunts Ghosts: The Warmaster - Next Eisenhorn vs Ravenor Book - Interceptor City - The Dark Angels Horus Heresy Book he was apparently working on. Apparently it is about the "Dreadwing" Isn't he working on the Guardians of the Galaxy Comic Books?
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I'm known for my awful opinions and I think the Ultramarines movie was insufferable. I could do better and I know absolutely nothing about 3D modelling and animation.
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Noctis Horrendae posted:I'm known for my awful opinions and I think the Ultramarines movie was insufferable. I could do better and I know absolutely nothing about 3D modelling and animation. If you, Noctis Horrendae, make a 5 minute video of equal visual quality to that movie, alone, within the next 6 months, I will eat a hat on camera.  edit: This is not a defense of that lovely movie my dad fucked around with this message at 06:33 on Apr 7, 2014 |
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UberJumper posted:Isn't he working on the Guardians of the Galaxy Comic Books? Not anymore, I think they gave it to Bendis.
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^^^^ He *IS* writing movie tie-in novels though, and does work on other Marvel stuff still IIRC. Mr. Soul posted:I read GG up to Honour Guard and Necropolis was the only one I thought was worth reading. How many until there's another one that good? gently caress was it awesome. Baron Bifford posted:I forgot how nasty this thread could get.
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Arquinsiel posted:For once it wasn't you. Good job buddy!
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Let's all have a group hug
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Joe Videogames posted:Let's all have a group hug Why Sweden? Why does it always have to be Sweden? Every time there's a rad as hell Space Marine suit, it's Sweden or Norway.
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Noctis Horrendae posted:Why Sweden? Why does it always have to be Sweden? Every time there's a rad as hell Space Marine suit, it's Sweden or Norway. That's just how Swedes dress.
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Saith posted:That's just how Swedes dress. I'm gonna go work on getting my Swedish citizenship.
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Arquinsiel posted:^^^^ drat, the trench warfare sounds interesting but Necropolis was like reading a book on Stalingrad or Berlin with the scale cranked up by infinity. poo poo was straight dope.
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It does get pretty great. I love the later literal haunted house story too. Keep on going, it's well worth it and The Lost is a great arc.
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Noctis Horrendae posted:Why Sweden? Why does it always have to be Sweden? Every time there's a rad as hell Space Marine suit, it's Sweden or Norway. Actually the guy is a Swede who lives in Norway according to what I could gleam from his DA profile so good job I guess. Also it's not like moving over here grants you costume making powers for that part.  If that'd been the case I'd probably be rocking a decent Guardsman uniform or something but lo and behold I don't nor do I really have the body for it either.
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Cooked Auto posted:Actually the guy is a Swede who lives in Norway according to what I could gleam from his DA profile so good job I guess. It was a joke, come on  . I was just guessing by the text on the sign to his right. I don't think any goons have the body for anything military related.
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That little girl knows what's up. If she'd tried to hug an Iron Hand she'd probably have been crushed for her fleshy weakness.
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JerryLee posted:That little girl knows what's up. If she'd tried to hug an Iron Hand she'd probably have been crushed for her fleshy weakness. "THE ONLY LOVE MY CYBERBRAIN FEELS IS FOR THE EMPEROR"
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Noctis Horrendae posted:It was a joke, come on http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=218 would disagree with you.
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Cooked Auto posted:Actually the guy is a Swede who lives in Norway according to what I could gleam from his DA profile so good job I guess. You're a Scandinavian without a lithe body of corded muscle? Does not compute.
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His ancestors where probably Irish brought here as slaves by the Vikings. True Norwegians are all swole.
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Joe Videogames posted:You're a Scandinavian without a lithe body of corded muscle? Does not compute. I know right. Must be because I'm technically half german or something.
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Booley posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=218 would disagree with you. I didn't know that was a thing. Neat, I guess.
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Borrowed Ahriman: Exile from a friend and finished it in two sitdowns. It's not bad, but far from great. I liked the way it dealt with sorcery, and the descriptions were nice and evocative. But the plot feels too much like a linear quest. Go here, do X risky thing. Go there, do Y riskier thing, only to learn you then have to go to location Z and face an even greater challenge, and they all slip by with almost no pathos or consequence. And the "the power was inside you all along" climax was a bit of a copout. I expected a bit more craftiness and cunning from the protagonist, not just tortured soul-searching and just going with the flow. The supporting cast, which could have alleviated the issues, is a big blank. You never learn the backstory of the renegades, why they fell as far as they did, or what they would even be doing without Ahriman there to give them a motive. They are crutches so Ahriman doesn't just talk to himself...more than he does.
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I'm just getting back into the Black Library stuff, I've read all of Abnett's stuff loved it. Everyone really loves this Night Lords books. How are they compared to Dan Abnett's stuff?
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Booley posted:http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=218 would disagree with you.  if you think that the average GIP poster is actually fit I'm one of those people and its been many years since I was anywhere close to fite: Obligatory 
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Well, still. By definition GiPs have the body for something military related.
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JerryLee posted:Well, still. By definition GiPs have the body for something military related. This doesn't equate to fit.
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I'm behind on my HH books, and just got to Angel Exterminatus, and at half way in, I'm sadly just bored. It's competently written, but the characters themselves seem to barely get any airtime or development, and if they do, it's 'generic 40k dialogue 101', interspersed with the usual fare of basic 40k action sequences. I feel like it's a little my own fault, and I'm being jaded, but this book isn't capturing my attention at all, and I don't think it's furthering the HH plot either.
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I felt the second half of the book was better. At least Perturbo gets some characterization. Even if its nothing more than "My bastard brothers kept coming in and stealing my glory. Also Dad! I just want to play Sim City on a planetary scale!"
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So, based on the recent Calth/Ultramar books, what are the odds that the "Ollianus Pious" who gives his life in the final Horus/Emperor showdown is actually Grammaticus using his friend's name again? If I'm right, someone link to this post in 15 years, when that book comes out.
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The Horus heresy was 5 years right? Or 5 decades? Either way we are like 2 in? e: 7 years We still have some major events to get through. I hope there are some sweet space naval action and commando poo poo with the fall of Luna. The siege itself will probably be a couple of books at least. I forget what else happens time to check the wiki Waroduce fucked around with this message at 13:48 on Apr 9, 2014 |
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Sephyr posted:Borrowed Ahriman: Exile from a friend and finished it in two sitdowns. Yeah, the part where Ahriman goes, "Oh, I guess I could just cast this rubric on you the whole time, too. I win!" at the end was a bit anticlimactic. But like you said, not amazing, but not bad either. I was satisfied, and hope it's a continuing story line. I always liked the character from A Thousand Sons, and I think French did a good job of building on that template.
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DirtyRobot posted:So, based on the recent Calth/Ultramar books, what are the odds that the "Ollianus Pious" who gives his life in the final Horus/Emperor showdown is actually Grammaticus using his friend's name again? That's what they're building up to right now, but the Black Library's raging hard on for John Grammaticus means that by the time they reach that scene, John will be a planet sized, immortal robot with eight arms wielding double-bladed katanas and fighting Perpetual demons in the Eye. So I wouldn't worry about him replacing Olly. Unless they manage to restrain themselves for that long.
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